Fire Emission Production Simulator (FEPS)

Description

Fire Emission Production Simulator (FEPS) is a user-friendly computer program designed for scientists and resource managers with some working knowledge of Microsoft Windows applications. The software manages data concerning consumption, emissions and heat release characteristics of prescribed burns and wildland fires.

Use

The basic steps are: 1. You describe an event. This description includes the name, location, start date, end date, and other miscellaneous properties. 2. For the event, you may specify up to five unique fuel profiles. Each profile includes fuel loading and fuel moisture information. 3. FEPS will calculate total fuel consumption for each profile. 4. FEPS determines flaming, short-term smoldering and long-term smoldering involvement and consumption. 5. You indicate how the Event behaves over time. 6. FEPS calculates emissions and heat release parameters on an hourly basis. Fuel characteristics for each hour are managed by distributing the fire across the five user-specified fuel profiles.

Release Notes

The most recent FEPS update includes the fuels data from the most popular fuelbeds in the Fuel Characteristic Classification System. FEPS version 1.1 produces hourly emission and heat release data for prescribed and wildland fires, and accepts data exported from FOFEM and Consume. Remember to uninstall version 1.0 before reinstalling version 1.1. When upgrading from version 1.0 to 1.1, the installation software will retain all of your user-specified Event information. Nevertheless, we strongly recommend that you make a copy of the FEPS.mdb file in a safe place prior to upgrading FEPS